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We are progressing nicely though our design and build. The practice bot is just about ready to have its first test runs after we bring up all the electronics (assign…

In  week 4 we received our first sheet metal parts of the season. Huge thank you to our sponsor Solarcraft Inc, for their continued support of our team with their…

The theme of our two Cargo manipulation groups for the past two weeks has been "EVERYTHING IS CHANGING!"This has been said at least once every other day about both our…

We are releasing the STEP file for the 3 subsystems that we sent off to be laser cut this morning.Spectrum 2019 CAD Progress 1-22-19You can view it online in the…

We spent the long weekend getting the drive train, elevator, and climber ready to be sent off to our sponsor Solarcraft Inc. for laser cutting and bending.For each part we…

We have spent some time putting together a more complete intake prototype. Our protopipe system has been a huge help with this. The same frame we used for the original…

 ElevatorThe elevator on this year's robot is a simple two stage cascading chain lift. Nothing too complicated. The cargo floor intake raises the ball to 15" from the floor with…

We have been successfully using Protopipe this season to test our cargo designs. It has let us make rapid iterations.Today we quickly added a bottom roller to help eject cargo…

CAD UpdatesWe still have a lot of work to do before this design is ready for production but we are solving a lot of the problems and getting closer to…